Local Election Results

St. Louis, MO – Local elections were held throughout the St. Louis region Tuesday. Turnout was low.

A $9 million bond issue in the Washington, Mo. School District failed. Needing two-thirds approval, the vote got just 65% approval. Selling the bonds would have raised the cash needed to build new schools and fix old ones.

Voters in the district did, however, did approve raising their property taxes as a way to send the schools more money. That question needed just a simple majority and passed with 57%.

A plan to elect the Kirkwood city council from wards overwhelmingly failed. Council members are currently elected at-large and more than 5,400 voters, or 76%, essentially decided to keep it that way.

The city of Maryland Heights will get a little bigger, as well. Voters gave approval to annex land near the Page Avenue extension where about 1,600 people currently live. Only 157 voted against the annexation; 1,020 voted for it.

In other elections:

- The City of Ferguson will keep term limits on council members and the mayor; a proposition to remove them failed 58%-42%.

-Lincoln County voters narrowly approved raising sales tax in the county to pay for ambulance service. The vote was 1,318-1,212.